Buhutu (Bohutu) is an
Oceanic language spoken in
Milne Bay Province of
Papua New Guinea. Most Buhutu speakers live in the
Sagarai River Valley between
Mullins Harbour on the south coast and the
Pima mountains north of the
Sagarai.
Alphabet
Buhutu language has 19 letters (Aa, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Ss, Tt, Uu, Ww, Yy),
glottal stop
The glottal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents thi ...
and 7
diphthong
A diphthong ( ; , ), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of the speech o ...
s (bw, fw, gw, hw, kw, mw, pw).
References
External links
Alphabet and pronunciation
Nuclear Papuan Tip languages
Languages of Milne Bay Province
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